Badass Ancestors: Finding Your Power with Ancestral Guides

by Patti Wigington

Overview

Cultivate Relationships with Your People for Empowerment and Healing

This groundbreaking book shows you how to work with different types of ancestors to find, develop, and celebrate the personal power of your inner badass. By embracing the strength of your lineage—both blood relatives and those chosen by the heart—you can receive wisdom and guidance when you need it the most.

Badass Ancestors provides a compelling series of rituals, meditations, mantras, and exercises that connect you with ancestral guides. You'll discover advice on genealogy research, the history of ancestor veneration in cultures around the world, ways to deal with problematic ancestors, and how to leave your own legacy for future generations. Each chapter offers unique calls to action—including crafts and recipes—that help you build self-confidence and overall badassery with your ancestors' assistance. When you develop relationships with your relatives and with spiritual or archetypal ancestors, you engage the process of healing trauma and achieving a deep sense of emotional and spiritual well-being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738764986
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	09/08/2020
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Patti Wigington has been practicing as a Pagan and witch since 1987. She is the founder and high priestess of a local coven, works as an educator in the witchcraft community, blogs about magical things, and has a low-key obsession with genealogical research. In addition to a full-time job in the corporate world, Patti served as editor of the Paganism & Wicca site at LearnReligions, previously About.com, from 2007–2020. She is the author of a number of books on magical practice and serves as a board member for the Central Ohio Pagan Alliance. Patti has a BA in history from Ohio University as well as a graduate certificate in management and leadership and lives in a magical cottage in the forest with a large dog, a pair of fat, lazy cats, and an absurd collection of tarot decks. She spends her rare bits of free time putzing around in her garden, hiking local trails, dying her hair interesting colors, and performing random acts of recipe experimentation. For more on Patti and her work, please visit PattiWigington.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

One: Ancestor Veneration Around the World 11

Two: Finding Your Badass Kin—Genealogy 101

Three: Your Badass Ancestor Altar 61

Four: Working with Your Badass Family 83

Five: Rituals and Meditations for Your Kin 103

Six: Problem Ancestors—You Can’t Choose Your People

127 Seven: Badass Ancestors of the Heart 139

Eight: Connecting to Archetypal Badasses 147

Nine: Divination with Your Badass Kin 167 Ten: Eating with Your Ancestors 183

Eleven: Your Badass Legacy 199

Conclusion: Putting It All Together

215 Appendix: Genealogy Resources

219 Bibliography 229

Index 233